Flashfire912 - It seems summarizing it is the way to go huh? Haha! xD

AkorinKokoro - Maybe he can, or not. Read this chapter so you'll find out.

Shyjoker - Is it Celes? You'll find out here.


Imitation is a good weapon of deception.

Common sense and intelligence factors the reaction.

Low results lead to death. Opposite says otherwise.

The culprit is led closer to being found out or is it?

Will luck get the answer correctly?

Or will sheer brains win it.


Hope's Peak Academy : Underground Floor

- Courtroom

- Wednesday

- 10:44 a.m.


Make an Accusation!

Shiki Takashi

Makoto Naegi

Kyouko Kirigiri

Celestia Ludenburg

Byakuya Togami

Sayaka Maizono

Chihiro Fujisaki

Mondo Oowada

Junko Enoshima

Asahina Aoi

Oogami Sakura

Touko Fukawa

Leon Kuwata

Kiyotaka Ishimaru

Yasuhiro Hagakure [DEAD]

Yamada Hifumi

NAEGI: "It can only be you!"


NAEGI: "Celes..."

CELES: "Yes?"

NAEGI: "Maybe you're the one responsible for his murder..."

CELES: "..."

SHIKI: "You're serious.."

TOGAMI: "I can imagine her killing someone. Whatever happened to adapting to this prestigious school."

MAIZONO: "Maybe she didn't have a choice.."

JUNKO: "I knew she couldn't resist it!"

CELES: "..."

CELES: "I'm surprised that you'd accuse me among the rest of us here."

FUKAWA: "You don't look shocked..."

CELES: "So how about citing some evidence further to prove that I really am the culprit."

ASAHINA: "You aren't scared?"

CELES: "I am sure-footed that I am not liable of this murder."

CELES: "That's why I will challenge Naegi to prove that I did it."

CELES: "You may proceed."

NAEGI: "The room switch."

NAEGI: "When you and Shiki exchanged your room keys, you could have used that toolbox to break your own lock to make yourself the victim."

NAEGI: "Since it was before Night Time, you could have pulled off the kill right into his head with a marble statue you are able to carry."

NAEGI: "Tricked him by lying and then leaving the crime scene untouched as if it was an attempted suicide."

NAEGI: "You planned to frame Shiki didn't you?"

LEON: "Hey... Celes.."

ASAHINA: "Celes! How could you do such a thing!"

HIFUMI: "Let's vote for this liar! She deserves to be killed for what she has done!"

CELES: "..."

CELES: "Your logic make sense.. except for a few details."

TOGAMI: "Hm?"

JUNKO: "So you're not giving in aren't cha?"

CELES: "A mistake on your part Naegi."

NAEGI: "H-huh?"

CELES: "Hagakure would let me into his room since I was among the calmest and quietest ones here. Berating like the rest of you is inhumane and immature."

CELES: "I am quite deceptive as you may see."

CELES: "But remember when Shiki fixed my doorknob? I only noticed this when I returned to my room before Night Time."

CELES: "How can I break my own lock if I haven't visited his room before we switched?"

CELES: "You can tell by the toolboxes that were used, basically Hifumi and Shiki."

CELES: "Furthermore, his toolbox is nowhere to be inside. He brought his kit along just to make the repairs."

CELES: "Then by this morning, we both returned to our original rooms."

CELES: "If you so likely think deeper, I did not visit anyone else's room yesterday morning."

CELES: "So I had nothing to do with this. I hope this is satisfactory enough for you."

NAEGI: "..."

CELES: "Now I have a question for you."

CELES: "The culprit smashed Hagakure in the head. His death was instantaneous based on the Monokuma File."

CELES: "Recalling the state of the room, how did they eliminate him?"

CELES: "No signs of struggle occurred in his bedroom adding up the only injury located on his head."

CELES: "He would have caught attention from the premeditated attack is it not?"

KIRIGIRI: "Before all of this, Monokuma I have a request."

MONOKUMA: "Yes my dear?"

KIRIGIRI: "Do not interrupt us again. Your call to accusation was unnecessary."

MONOKUMA: "Yes maam!"

KIRIGIRI: "Suspecting people in this trial can wait until we patch up the entire crime."

NAEGI: "She's right. I need to think more on how would Hagakure not notice that he was going to die."

NAEGI: "The evidence list and the others is all I can listen to for now. I need to see if they make any errors."


PHASE 7

Nonstop Debate!

Available Ammunition:

== Broken Lock

== Pile of Shaman Items

== Missing Sewing Kit

ISHIMARU: "It is impossible for Hagakure to be wiped out blankly."

ISHIMARU: "Surely there must have been a way to divert his attention to something else?"

MAIZONO: "All we know is that we presumed they had a conversation."

MAIZONO: "What else could the killer do?"

FUKAWA: "Sigh..."

SAKURA: "Did we happen to miss a specific area in his room?"

SAKURA: "Or maybe they had something we failed to obtain."

NAEGI: I concur!

Ammunition Used: Pile of Shaman Items


NAEGI: "The room seemed to be a little spotless except for a bunch of shaman items that fell."

NAEGI: "Moreover, it was covered in blood. Surely this is no coincidence that it was lying around."

SAKURA: "So what is your proposition involving that?"

HIFUMI: "Maybe it fell before the culprit entered the room?"

NAEGI: "It would end with the same outcome. The culprit just needed to make sure they were out of their vision for a while."

NAEGI: "But this pile is quite large don't you think? Either way, he would have picked it up because it was important."

SHIKI: "Picked it up..."

SHIKI: "Naegi! That's it!"

OOWADA: "What's it?"

SHIKI: "He needed to pick it up, meaning the culprit was given a certain amount of time to distract him!"

SHIKI: "And in order to do it, they needed to crouch."

TOGAMI: "I see.. a distraction you say."

TOGAMI: "Crouching leads your focus to the floor and the items. It is in human nature to take immediate action when something falls."

TOGAMI: "This way, he wouldn't notice any foreboding movements of the murderer."

ISHIMARU: "I can't accept that inaccurate theory of yours."

SHIKI: "Who are you referring to?"

ISHIMARU: "Naegi, what you said is just mere conjecture."

ISHIMARU: "My idea is more logical and practical than you think."

NAEGI: "Isn't the proposed idea more acceptable?"

NAEGI: "Unless he has evidence he hasn't shown us.."


PHASE 8

Cross Swords Battle!

Available Swords:

== Monokuma File No.1

== Marble Statue Remnants

== State of the Body

Naegi! Your theory on the culprit==/== is silly!

We have already accepted th==/==at the culprit was welcomed to Hagakure's room.

And that his dea==/==th was immediate because of the Monokuma File.

But I find it ridiculous that the marble st==/==atue was used as a murder weapon.

They needed to use somethin==/==g much handier and lighter than that like a hammer for example.

...

DEVELOPMENT!

...

NAEGI: "The number of fallen items contributes to the time they needed to pull it off!"

NAEGI: "Since it was a big batch, it would suffice to lift the marble statue onto his head without notice!"

NAEGI: "And the marble statue remnants are proof that this was used!"

The fallen items and marble stat==/==ue remains were merely a red herring to this crime scene.

Since a hammer is of highest convenien==/==ce, they aimed it in perfect timing.

After that, they clean==/==ed his room as if nothing much happened.

Then they used a marble statue, smash==/==ed it on the floor, gathered all the pieces and placed them around his forehead.

There wasn't that mu==/==ch of a difference to his injuries!

Which leaves us with Shiki and Hifumi who used their toolboxes.


NAEGI: I'll cut that claim into pieces!

Sword used: State of the Body


NAEGI: "There is one proof that nothing else but that was the murder weapon."

ISHIMARU: "It was a heavy object was it? A hammer is definitely recommended."

NAEGI: "Have you tried to take a closer look at his head wound?"

ISHIMARU: "How can we get a good look if it was bloodied! There is no way to identify its shape!"

KIRIGIRI: "I checked it's wound."

ASAHINA: "Y-you checked that!?"

HIFUMI: "Eeek! That's gross!"

KIRIGIRI: "You will need to bypass such limits to advance further."

KIRIGIRI: "The shape of the wound does not match to a hammer."

KIRIGIRI: "You can make a disarray of shapes in the same area with a hammer but the Monokuma File says that he was killed instantly."

KIRIGIRI: "If you compare it with that of a giant marble statue, it would take several times to create as such."

KIRIGIRI: "Moreover, the pressure of each attack should have been equal."

JUNKO: "How do you know these things?"

KIRIGIRI: "..That's not important right now."

KIRIGIRI: "I hope this finally rests the case of the murder weapon."

ISHIMARU: "Tsk. I apologize for making such statements unagreeable.."

FUJISAKI: "I don't understand one thing.."

FUJISAKI: "How would Hagakure notice the marble statue if he let them enter?"

HIFUMI: "A gift?"

CELES: "If it was to be a gift, then he would have gotten one himself from the beginning."

SHIKI: "Looking at Hagakure's interests, I doubt he'd want something as scary as that."

LEON: "And you know this when?"

SHIKI: "It's in our ElectroID, personal information tab."

NAEGI: "Bringing the murder weapon without him noticing it. How could they hide it?"


PHASE 8

Nonstop Debate!

Available Ammunition:

== Marble Statue Containers

== Monokuma's Rejection

== Night Time Rule

LEON: "It's definite that the killer used something to hide a big marble."

LEON: "But what can be used around here for that?"

CELES: "Plastic bags, boxes and the like would give Hagakure notice."

FUJISAKI: "Maybe he didn't mind at all.."

OOWADA: "So he didn't care whatever was inside."

HIFUMI: "Could it be that it was already inside?"

SHIKI: "Then he would have known that they were holding it then. It can be his after all."

CELES: "Does this indicate that what they used is something ||one of us can only have||."

ASAHINA: "Then it's gonna be something big enough to fit the statue."

ASAHINA: "No baggage or briefcases that's for sure."

NAEGI: I concur!

Ammunition Used: One of us can only have


NAEGI: "If the culprit did not use any common bag as such."

NAEGI: "Then they would have used a bag that they only possess."

KIRIGIRI: "A backpack for example. It would seem unnoticeable provided that Hagakure would assume nothing peculiar inside or would never ask about it anyway."

ISHIMARU: "Aren't we all supplied with bags in our rooms? What kind of student would not have such thing?"

ISHIMARU: "It's a norm of the school community is it not?"

MAIZONO: "Do we really need our bags in a time like this?"

MAIZONO: "All of us never had them carried beyond our rooms."

KIRIGIRI: "Everyone except for one."

KIRIGIRI: "Naegi, you know who this is don't you? He's just right there."

NAEGI: "W-why me? How do I..."

NAEGI: "Hey! This person has a bag carrying all the time!"

NAEGI: "You did this..."


Make an Accusation!

Shiki Takashi

Makoto Naegi

Kyouko Kirigiri

Celestia Ludenburg

Byakuya Togami

Sayaka Maizono

Chihiro Fujisaki

Mondo Oowada

Junko Enoshima

Asahina Aoi

Oogami Sakura

Touko Fukawa

Leon Kuwata

Kiyotaka Ishimaru

Yasuhiro Hagakure [DEAD]

Yamada Hifumi

NAEGI: "It can only be you!"


NAEGI: "...Hifumi, it was you wasn't it?"

HIFUMI: "Ehh? What the? Me? You're kidding!"

NAEGI: "No, Hifumi. Did you kill him or not? Tell us the truth."

FUJISAKI: "N-no way.."

SHIKI: "I knew it."

HIFUMI: "I'm being cornered..."

KIRIGIRI: "Cornered you say? So you admit it then."

HIFUMI: "Ha! No way!"

NAEGI: "But you are the only one who brings their bag all the time."

HIFUMI: "Accusing me just because of a bag!? Can't you do better?"

HIFUMI: "I need more evidence to prove that. Ohohoho!"

NAEGI: "Hagakure would ignore the bag because he knew that it was a common habit of you carrying it."

HIFUMI: "Remember, my doll was missing when I went back to my room!"

HIFUMI: "They tried to break in!"

HIFUMI: "How do you suppose that it was there? It can be a fake!"

ISHIMARU: "I wonder why we haven't returned to that part of the story?"

ISHIMARU: "Focusing on the killer's attempt and the murder weapon is what we've finished."

HIFUMI: "Shiki was the one who stole my doll! It was in the box!"

HIFUMI: "Ohohoho!"

HIFUMI: "By the way, wasn't Oowada guarding the crime scene? Did he see me enter your room?"

OOWADA: "He's right about that."

HIFUMI: "See? All this nonsense is just because Celes and Shiki are pulling us off!"

HIFUMI: "They'd go to all circumstances just to graduate!"

HIFUMI: "And they are very deceptive from the looks on their faces!"

FUKAWA: "They look calm.."

HIFUMI: "Exactly!"

NAEGI: "He's our best suspect right now, there must have been a way for him to enter..."


PHASE 9

Nonstop Debate!

Available Ammunition:

== Investigation Benefits

== Doll Double

== Marble Statue Remnants

SHIKI: "The investigation started and separated into groups..."

SHIKI: "How is it possible for Hifumi to get to my room if Oowada was there the entire time?"

KIRIGIRI: "His room comprises of no damage to his lock..."

KIRIGIRI: "...so Hifumi was no lock-picker."

FUKAWA: "That means Shiki was the only one who could have done it!"

SHIKI: "But that doesn't explain the fact that his doll was there, I had no memory of it."

OOWADA: "Of course no one was able to slip under my skin since I was by the door keeping on guard."

OOWADA: "I take guarding areas very seriously."

ASAHINA: "So whoever ||left early|| at the gym is the one who did it then?"

HIFUMI: "You can't say for sure that I am the culprit!"

NAEGI: You've got that wrong!

Ammunition Used: ..left early


NAEGI: "Actually, there was a way to go to his room without Oowada noticing."

NAEGI: "If by any case they left the gym in a hurry."

CELES: "It appears that you were among the many of us to leave earliest."

NAEGI: "Oowada joined with Sakura and Asahina first in search for clues."

OOWADA: "But I thought that I wasn't good at that shit so my instincts say that I should guard the most suspicious person's room."

OOWADA: "And that would be Shiki whom I thought would match that."

SHIKI: "I don't whether to thank you for that..."

SHIKI: "If you guarded the place earlier then the doll shouldn't be there in the first place."

SHIKI: "But we both didn't realize it until now so all's well that ends well."

NAEGI: "Rushing to Shiki's room without caring, he placed their doll into his room and left like he took no step inside."

HIFUMI: "..."

CELES: "Well, how about it?"

NAEGI: "Also, we didn't hear any alarm of a sort during our investigation."

NAEGI: "And because of the presence of that in Shiki's room, without a doubt you did it!"

HIFUMI: "..."

HIFUMI: "Ohohoho!"

HIFUMI: "You are surely mistaken! AGAIN!"

HIFUMI: "It wasn't me! It wasn't me!"

HIFUMI: "Ohohoho!"

KIRIGIRI: "Naegi, now's your chance to prove him wrong for the last time."

NAEGI: "He's very persistent and out of character now.. I'll have to ensure all evidences prove that he did it."


PHASE 10

Panic Talk Battle

[=||=][=||=][=||=] HIFUMI [=||=][=||=][=||=]

Shield x6: 6 remaining!

[=||=][=||=][=||=]You say that I'm the culprit? I laugh upon your mockery.[=||=][=||=][=||=]

Shield break! : 5 remaining!

[=||=][=||=][=||=] Just because you accuse me of a bag? You have to do better than that.[=||=][=||=] [=XX=]

TEMPO UP!

Shield break! : 4 remaining!

[=||=] [=||=][=||=] That doll of mine is proof enough that it wasn't me.[=||=][=XX=] [=XX=]

Shield break! : 3 remaining!

[=XX=] [=||=] [=||=] Celes or Shiki could be collaborating this murder. He picked my lock and her lock on purpose. [=||=][=XX=] [=XX=]

TEMPO UP!

Shield break! : 2 remaining!

[=XX=] [=XX=] [=||=] You little...[=||=][=XX=] [=XX=]

Shield break! : 1 remaining!

[=XX=] [=XX=] [=XX=] Grrrr... [=||=] [=XX=] [=XX=]

Shield break! : 0 remaining!

[=XX=] [=XX=] [=XX=]((I did nothing! The bag and doll is weak evidence!))[=XX=] [=XX=] [=XX=]


THE! DOLL! TRIGGER!

NAEGI: "Let's finish this!"


NAEGI: "There's only one way for you to place it in his box without being given suspicion."

NAEGI: "Did you know that your doll possess a trigger when someone besides yourself takes hold of it?"

HIFUMI: "Ridiculous!"

KIRIGIRI: "This doll is authentic hence it contains an alarm."

KIRIGIRI: "Just to make sure we are correct, I will grab the doll to see if it makes a noise."

KIRIGIRI: "If it does, then everything matches to you."

HIFUMI: "..."

SHIKI: "Everyone, cover your ears please."

...

...

ALARM

...

HIFUMI: "..."

CELES: "Any objections?"

HIFUMI: "I... I..."

KIRIGIRI: "Let us review the entire case once more."

NAEGI: "R-right."

=== Act 1:

It all starts with the motive, wherein one of us who will be able to give Monokuma at least 5 of the dolls each of us own will graduate. After the ceremony, we all placed our dolls locked in our rooms without questions preventing theft.

=== Act 2:

The culprit, having looked at the physical features of the doll, created fake dolls of his own to frame someone, which he decided to be me and one person in random. To begin with, he needed to find materials in order to make duplicates. Realizing that girls have sewing kits, Between lunch and dinner period, he took his toolbox and picked Celes' door open and took her sewing kit and left.

=== Act 3:

After creating perfect replicas of some of the dolls, he placed them in the side of the storage room door. What was needed afterwards was a murder weapon. Entering the storage room, he rummaged through it and found a marble statue and placed it in his bag to avoid suspicion. Sometime later, Hagakure was the one who saw the box and was curious on why it's there and what is inside. There were dolls contained so realizing the motive again, for the sake of freedom, he immediately went to the gym to graduate. He fell for the culprit's trap easily.

=== Act 4:

Some of us saw him with a box, me only to notice that there were dolls that belonged to the others. I shouted at him in persuasion to prevent him from graduating. He thought that he was going to succeed but that was all according to plan. Monokuma rejected those dolls and didn't explain why, which left us in confusion. He set up a firing blaze all over the gym which left us with an almost-burnt Maizono doll.

=== Act 5:

Hagakure, being a viable target to all of us here permanently hides in his room to avoid rampant words and threats from all of us after we interrogated him of his actions. All the culprit needed to do was to give him a visit and kill him.

=== Act 6:

Before night time, he knocked on his door and decided to talk about graduating together. He intentionally slipped one of his shaman items to crash and have Hagakure pick them up, which gave him enough time to strike him with the marble statue packed in his bag. After his final strike, he left him there and went to his room afterwards.

=== Act 7:

During our morning meeting, it was expected that everybody would be present and early. Hagakure, Celes, Fujisaki and Maizono were late at this time. After a small ruckus, we went to their rooms and call them out. Luckily, Celes, Fujisaki and Maizono were alive except for him as we know it. Monokuma then appeared to us and voluntarily unlocked the door.

=== Act 8:

Having us discovered him at his room, the body discovery announcement was made. Monokuma said that all rooms in the first floor will be open for investigative purposes. An idea popped to him that he can further frame me by placing his doll on my box. And with the help of his bag, he was able to hide the fourth marble statue he needed to carry to place it in Fujisaki's room. After all that, his plan is complete and went with the crowd.

NAEGI: "And that's what happened tonight!"

NAEGI: "Yamada Hifumi! You're the killer!"


Author's notes: I felt bad taking Hifumi out of the cast... It's like in the demo after all. I don't know why he had potato chips in the first place..

The dolls were made exactly like the original hence Hifumi being a Fanzine Maker. I just had to think that would Kirigiri and company notice what more he can do besides making magazine for fans. When I searched for his room in the internet, it was your typical biggest fan room AKA Mochi Princess.

Well, that's about it for the first trial. Now for the execution.

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